CHAP. XXIV. Of getting of little bones and such like things out of the jaws and throat.
SOmetimes little bones and such like things in eating greedily use to stick,* 1.1 or as it were fasten themselves in the jaws o•• throat. Such bodies if you can come to the sight of them, shall be taken out with long, slender and crooked mallets made like a Cranes-beak. If they do not appear; nor there be no means to take them forth, they shall be cast forth by causing vomit, or with swallowing a crust of bread, or a drie fig gently chawed, and so swallowed; or else they shall be thrust down into the stomack, or plucked back with a leek, or some other such long and stiff crooked bodie anointed with oil, and thrust down the throat. If any such like thing shall get into the weazon, you must cause coughing, by taking sharp things, or else sneesing; so to cast forth whatsoever is there troublesome.